Thanks for bringing up to Vox piece, I was surprised (and then felt stupid for being surprised) that Jez didn’t touch it with a 10 1/2ft pole. It’s definitely worth a read, here it is for anyone who missed it: https://www.vox.com/2020/5/7/21248713/tara-reade-joe-biden-sexual-assault-accusation
Most people who have been fired would rather not disclose that.
Yeah, and if anyone has ever known any narcissists, it’s not uncommon to build fictional or highly skewed self-narratives around incidents that may indicate weakness, incompetence, or rejection, and for those self-narratives to become true in the mind of the narcissist. I don’t know that Tara Reade is a narcissist but…
And that’s why HR departments typically have a multitude of tactics to screen out candidates who may have lied on their resume, and it’s grounds for rescinding an offer and even dismissal from a job! And it’s actually a pretty big deal if you get caught, despite the fact that you think it’s nbd because lots of people…
This isn’t lying on a resume. She was not applying for a job. She was proactively telling people she assisted Joe Biden in writing his signature piece of legislation, inflating and even fabricating her own importance, and had a high-ranking position at his office to ingratiate herself to them and gain financial favors…
That is not normal behavior. If you think it is, well, I can imagine you’ve been fired from a lot of jobs.
It’s a very long walk from sorting Biden’s mail to helping him write the Violence Against Women Act. And she wasn’t just padding her resume a little bit, she was blatantly lying about it without prompting to her landlords for the purposes of manipulating them. That is not normal behavior, no matter how determined you…
So basically neither side is credible and we’re at an impasse.
That’s a strawman, though, because the Politico article does not make the claim that because she had financial difficulty she must be lying about being sexual assaulted. It is about the fact that she seems to have a pattern of lying for personal gain, including lying about her position while working for Joe Biden.…
Honestly, the thing I found most interesting about the Politico article was not that information about her bankruptcy and landlords but that her own retelling of her role at Joe Biden’s office seemed to be inflating with each person she told the tale to:
I’m gonna say it: this just isn’t true. I’m in my late 30s. I don’t like being touched. I have had nonconsensual physical contact at all but one workplace I’ve ever been part of, whether it’s my boss putting a hand on my shoulder or an unwanted hug from a coworker or a “maternal” older colleague who thinks it’s cool…
To be fair, I feel like a lot of the “good ol’ days” vibe is really just looking wistfully at a time when it felt like the truth was not a matter of opinion and reality was not based on where you were getting your news from, not necessarily all the grabby-hands senators...
To be fair, Alison Roman’s recipes are more Silver Palate Cookbook Redux — sort of New York City Bougie Italian-Jewish Fusion Brunch. She is famous for her love of anchovies. There is a conversation to be had about the appropriation of cuisine, but Alison Roman apparently saves that for her interviews and mostly…
It’s not an essay, it’s two paragraphs. And I am not the one who wrote an Actual Essay about how Bernie Had Better Memes. This is petty and small and childish. And it’s not even a thoughtful or incisive take on digital strategy or media, which is I guess why you had to link to pieces other people wrote that made your…
I mean... you realize that this is a strategy, right? Suburban moms are on Facebook in great numbers, share shitty memes (what up, Wine Moms, didya see that new Juggling the Jenkins vid???), and were instrumental in handing Trump the election in 2016. Bernie’s memes didn’t do anything for him in 2016 and they did not…
I mean, does it REALLY seem weird to you that Biden, a career Senator and former Vice President, might have some semblance of a clue about what is in the Senate papers HE PERSONALLY gifted to the University of Delaware and might have a better idea of what is and is not in those papers, and whether they contained…
Yeah, this sowing mistrust in institutions KNOWN for their investigative journalism and supporting obviously biased “news” sources because their conclusions do not align with yours, or support the conclusion you wanted it to, is not the direction we need to go in here. I just want to live in a world where facts are…
I mean, the article you linked me to makes a pretty strong case that “it’s likely somewhere” and devotes quite a few words to speculating about where her complaint might be. So, idk, maybe read the article you linked? I don’t know why you think corroborating the facts of her story are not possible or important beyond…
THE COMPLAINT would be a huge piece of evidence that corroborates her story: She says she filed a complaint against Biden in 1993 and was retaliated against by being terminated from her position. That is central to her story, and a huge piece of corroborating evidence. She didn’t keep it and hasn’t been able to…